North Atlantic Blue and Fin Whales Suspend Their Spring Migration to Forage in Middle Latitudes: Building up Energy Reserves for the Journey?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Silva, Mónica A ^a,b,c   Prieto, Rui ^a,b   Jonsen, Ian ^d   Baumgartner, Mark F ^c   Santos, Ricardo S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BLUE WHALE; BODY MOVEMENT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIEL VERTICAL MIGRATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; FIN WHALE; FORAGING; GEOGRAPHY; GREENLAND; HABITAT USE; ICELAND; LATITUDE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES TRANSLOCATION; SPRING; SWIMMING; VELOCITY; WHALE;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AZORES; BALAENOPTERA; BREEDING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FIN WHALE; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; SEASONS; SWIMMING;

EID: 84885113289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076507     Document Type: Article

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